"Prof. Sandhya Kode was a speaker at the TEDX talk at VNRVJIET on April 2, 2016 with Avenue UNSHELL.Her faith on "Owing your circumstances" was received very well."

"Prof. Sandhya Kode presented a paper on "Enhancing Education: Education Technology for Teachers’ Training" at the LaTice Conference 2016 at IIT Mumbai from 31st March to 1st April 2016."

"Girls in Tech and Meliva change catalyst conducted a 3-day workshop "Enterpreurship Bootcamp for Women's an 3 day work shop. Prof. Sandhya Kode has been a very supportive mentor for teachers.""

"Prof. SandhyKode supported and participated in the Technology for Education (T4E2015) Conference on 10th to 12th December 2015 at NIT Warangal. She was theSteering Committee Chair at the T4E2015 Conference. She is also the Steering Committee chair for the next Technology for Education (T4E2016) Conference which is going to be organized at IIT-Mumbai in 2016."

"Prof. Sandhya Kodeis a co-facilitator for leadership work on Digital E-learning and is on the faculty of 6 state universities. with AP at ASCI in collaborating with British Council and ASCI"

"Dr. Vivekananda Suresh Kumar, Dean for Graduate studies, Athabasca University had his elegant presence at VNR Vignan Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology. Dr. Vive gave a presentation on a fascinating and the most promising area of artificial intelligence, he is currently working on. He demonstrated the applications of java analytics in enhancing the student's performance.
The teachers of VNR Vignan Jyothi attended the seminar. Dr. Viev talked about the different studying patterns of the students through his research at Athabasca University. His research gave positive results in taking the students to make a higher level of thinking, implying better grades. The teachers at VNR are enthusiastic and kept Dr. Viev busy answering to their questions. They offered a helping hand in the further development of analytics.
Later on Dr. Viev, Dr. Kode and Mr. Prabhakar went on a tour around the enthralling campus. They had a good look at the former pictures from the college and were awed by the facilities at the labs. The trip of Dr. Viev to India was successful with massive knowledge transfer taking place.

Dr Sumit Gulwani send Dr Rishabh from Microsoft Research visited our lab and looked at our work on course development using Butterfly model.
They were keen to work with us on and we too expressed our interest in working with them. One area was to try out ideas on auto generation of questions. They were keen to understand more about our Art of Teaching workshop and Butterfly model course development.

Dr Bharath Jayaraman visited EnhanceEdu and was very excited with the work we are doing. He was keen to help and did a workshop for teachers to use Jive the JAVA visualization tool they had developed at SUNNY Buffalo.

In 2014 Research and Development showcase was held in IIIT-H on 9th and 10th February. We have showcased 17 posters. The showcase featured our offerings (for teachers, for students and professional from the industry) on workshops and courses.

17 courses in CS and ECE domains using the LBD methodology (or Butterfly model) are being developed for course content. We received a good response from the participants for our research papers. EnhanceEdu published papers in T4E, ICALT and ICTEE conferences.The showcase was a success and we collected their feedback and responses.

Sandhya Kode along with the team has done 1 day training on switch and technology enabled learning on February 13th, 2014. She took lessons on change management. She encouraged all the teachers to make small appointments to adopt technology enabled learning.

Sandhya Kode talked on “Transforming education through blended learning, e-content and learning by doing”. She talked about the availabled open courseware available and how they can use in the classroom. She explained a lot of flipped classroom methods as this will engage teachers students in the learning. She talked about gaps in education can be minimized by incorporating active learning and learning by doing methodology and blend them with traditional learning.

Prof. Sandhya Kode gave a talk at Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (GITAM) on 05 May, 2014 on “Relating Technology Adoption to Teaching: Use of Technology based Content and Open Education Resources in Teaching” during an orientation session for the faculty members of the college.

Prof. Sandhya Kode spoke about the Indian education system and how active learning can help enhance it. She also spoke about Learning by Doing (LbD), Active learning, learning technologies, blended learning, E-content development, open educational resources (OERs). She also discussed the role of stakeholders in transforming education. All the faculty members expressed their enthusiasm to transform education. They also expressed interest in reviewing LbD based courses in ECE and CSE streams that are developed by EnhanceEdu, IIIT-H.

Overall the talk was a huge success and in the end, all participants pledged to use active learning techniques in their classroom while teaching regular semester subjects.

Sandhya Kode represented POGIL India and presented 4 posters on behalf of EnhanceEdu, Jubilee hills public school, VNR Vignan Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology and Vignan Jyothi Institute of Management. This was also represented on behalf of Dr. Clif Kussmaul, Dr. Don Libby and Dr. Kelly Butler. There was a lot of excitement in collaborating colleges and schools in India.

Prof. Sandhya Kode gave a talk at Vidya Jyothi Institute of Technology (VJIT) on 24 June, 2014 on “Transforming Education using Active Learning and Learning Technologies” during an orientation session for the faculty members of the college.

Prof. Sandhya Kode spoke about the Indian education system and how active learning can help enhance the education. She also spoke about Learning by Doing (LbD), blended learning, open educational resources (OERs) and role of colleges (management, faculty and students) in transforming education. A lot of faculty members showed interest in helping transform education. Faculty expressed interest in reviewing LbD based courses in ECE and CSE streams being developed by EnhanceEdu, IIIT-H.

Overall the talk was a huge success and all the participants got motivated to play their role in enhancing the quality of education in their college. In the end, all participants pledged to use active learning techniques in their classroom while teaching regular semester subjects.

Prof. Sandhya Kode gave a talk at ICALT Athens, Greece on 24 July, 2014 on “Using discussion forums to improve student retention”.The aim was to increase student retention. She explained how we plan to motivate students to use discussion forums that will engage them and thereby improve student retention. EnhanceEdus efforts and contributions were discussed along with our newsletter.

The results along with the information about grades and % of student retention were provided during the presentation. The program met with a great reception and future plans were discussed.

Prof. Sandhya Kode was an eminent speaker along with other senior leaders, managers and CEO's of global IT companies. The program motivated everyone to learn and explore issues essential to compete on a global scale. She urged everyone to work towards the development of our nation and to proactively build a bright career. She told in order to make a bright career and to take part in the development of our nation, health is also an important factor.

The program was energetic and by the end, everyone pledged to

Encouraged students on why they are learning and what they are learning

Encouraged faculty on why they are teaching and what they are teaching

All the 500 people took the pledge across various places that they will work on asking questions why I am learning and what I am learning and access open education resources.

Director of POGIL United States of America visited Hyderabad between December 6th and December 9th, 2015 meeting with researchers at EnhanceEdu. He conducted workshop on POGIL activities at VNR Vignan Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology. EnhanceEdu researchers, IIIT Research assistant along with faculty of VNR activity participated in workshop. These activities will be placed in a Dropbox, reviewed internally by POGIL India followed by request to POGILers in US and Dr. Rick Moog has promised to help review activities as well. He was very excited with the whole visit to Hyderabad which was his first visit to India. He left by saying he will be back.

Mr. Surya Kiran Reddy and Ms. Sandhya Kode attended the conference and Surya presented the paper "Creating a Learner Centric Environment Through POGIL". She met with researchers at Amrita University and visited several labs.

3. The IEEE International Conference on Technology for Education, T4E 2013, will be held at the IIT, Kharagpur, India during December 18-20, 2013. Fellowship will be given to college and school level teachers (regardless of paper presentation) to encourage participation from teaching community.

The IEEE International Conference on Technology for Education, T4E 2013, will be held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India during December 18-20, 2013. We encourage you to participate in the conference and get the benefit.

Fellowship will be given to 50 teachers (both college and school level) to attend T4E, regardless of whether they are presenting paper or not. The purpose of this Fellowship is to encourage participation from the teaching community, so that they may be able to apply to their teaching practice what they learned in T4E.

Teachers who want to make use of this fellowship need to write a note in their application on how they will benefit from attending T4E 2013 and how they will utilize the learning next year.

4. Weekly discussion on A-View at 4.00 PM on 20th November, 2013 on the topic "Transforming Education with Blended Learning, Learning by Doing and MOOC".

Talk by Prof. Sandhya Kode on "Transforming Education with Blended Learning LbD MOOC" had great response from various participants nationwide. They found the talk very informative and useful. During the course of the talk, she discussed on Implementation of MOOCs along with academics, teaching subjects using Blooms taxanomy and how an online education can guarantee a student over a particular course.

EnhanceEdu team conducted Wikiday workshop for the participants of UGC Academic staff College on 8 Nov, 2013 at JNTU Hyderabad campus. 13 teachers from various Engineering and Degree colleges participated in the workshop. Participants worked on various features of Medaiwiki and built their profile pages during the workshop.

This hands-on workshop was very well appreciated by the participants and they have actively participated in the workshop. They have expressed interest in attending more such workshops.

6. UGC Academic Staff College JNTUH

Prof. Sandhya Kode gave the valedictory address at the end of a one week course on "e-Learning" on 9th November at UGC Academic Staff College, JNTU Hyderabad. The address focused on transforming education through blended learning, Learning by Doing and Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). The participants were faculty dealing with diverse subjects including Sanskrit, Science and Arts. The participants were very responsive as many real world applications were cited and they were keen on using the knowledge in their subject areas. At the end of the valedictory session, Prof. Sandhya stressed the importance of taking their learning forward and taking the initiative to spend at least one hour a day on self improvement.

7. Workshops at BRAOU

Two workshops were conducted by Prof.Sandhya Kode at Dr. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University as part of training program on "E-content Development" for faculty of the university. During the first workshop held on 28th August, Prof. Sandhya Kode focused on Change Management and Instructional Design using the Butterfly model .The second workshop was conducted on 3rd September, 2013 on Bloom's Taxonomy and writing learning objectives. The workshops were activity based and very interactive. During the workshop, participants created learning objectives for their subjects using the all levels of Blooms Taxonomy. Additionally, the participants worked on instructional design focusing mainly on the butterfly model. At the end of the workshop, the participants were keen on designing instruction to develop higher order thinking skills using Blooms Taxonomy and Butterfly model. The workshop was very well received and the participants were excited about using the training in their classrooms.

8. Talk on ICT and Future of Distance Education at BRAOU

Prof. Sandhya Kode presented a talk at the National Seminar on "ICT and Future of Distance Education: Opportunities and Challenges" on June 27th, at Conference Hall , Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University. The talk highlighted the need to focus on teaching methods which enable learning rather than information sharing. Further, various tools and methods which promoted ICT for Distance Education were discussed. The audience was impressed about the role of EnhanceEdu in furthering the cause of ICT through tools like MediaWiki, Moodle and workshops on Change Management and Art of Teaching.

On the first day, Prof. Sandhya Kode led the participants through strategies for change especially when change is hard. Participants were nostalgic as they recollected the qualities of their best teachers and applied change management strategies to personally becoming better teachers. As the participants shared their presentations on change management, it was wonderful to see how everyone had shared common insights. The workshop also covered various aspects such as pedagogy and learning styles, lesson plan design, Mediawiki, active teaching techniques and mind maps. As the workshop was completely activity based and very interactive, there was overwhelming response from participants. At the end of the workshop, they proudly presented lesson plans built on Mediawiki and displayed mind maps on what they had learnt in the past two days. Through this workshop, faculty became confident to use multimedia resources in their classrooms and MediaWiki to design lesson plans. After successful completion of the workshop, the college management was keen to hold more such workshops in the future.

In the month of May EnhanceEdu conducted "Art of Teaching Workshop" at Vallurupalli Nageshwara Rao Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology (VNRVJIET) and Vignan Jyothi Institute of Management (VJIM) and trained around 140 faculty members from various departments like MBA, CE, CSE, ECE, EIE, IT, ME etc. As all other workshops offered by EnhanceEdu, even this workshop was conducted in a hands-on fashion and provided a great insight to various aspects of the noble art of teaching.

Advanced Topics in Text and Web Mining Workshop
This workshop is targeted at senior faculty members, researchers and M.Tech students with sound
knowledge in graph theory and data structures.
The objective of this workshop is to provide the participants with advanced knowledge and skills of
the techniques related to Text and Web Mining. This course will be highly beneficial to academicians,
IT-professionals and students whose research interests are in Text Mining, Web Mining, Information
Retrieval and e-Commerce. The participants will get exposure to new trends and techniques in these
areas. They will be able to play a role of better search engine optimizers, web and search technique
experts and finally will be able to go through current research trends.

12. An "Introduction to POGIL" faculty development workshop was held at VNR-VJIM on 17th April, 2013.

An “Introduction to POGIL” faculty development workshop was held at VNR-VJIM on 17th April, 2013. Professor Sandhya Kode, Director EnhanceEdu facilitated the workshop together with Dr. Jyothsna from VNR-VJIET. Around 35 senior and experienced faculty from VNR – VJIM attended the workshop. The workshop walked the participants through Process Oriented Guided Enquiry Learning (POGIL) method of teaching. The session was very interactive with hands on activity, and group discussions. Prof. Sandhya Kode highly engaged the participants making the workshop a worthwhile experience. At the end of the day, the participants were very eager to apply POGIL in their classrooms and they provided excellent feedback on the delivery of the workshop.

The EnhanceEdu team visited VR Siddhartha Engineering College (VRSEC) and PVP Siddhartha Institute of Technology (PVPSIT) on 21st March 2013. The team interacted with management and the students of the respective colleges. An “Intro to POGIL” session was also conducted for faculty from VR Siddhartha, PVP and Gudlavalleru engineering college at PVP Siddhartha Institute of Technology.

On 22nd March 2013, the EnhanceEdu team also visited Gudlavalleru Engineering College (GEC) and had an interaction with management, faculty and students. Ms. Sandhya Kode gave away prizes to students on occasion of CSE Department Association Day.

14. A One-Day faculty development program, on "Teaching in a technology enabled world – opportunities and challenges".

A One-Day faculty development program, on “Teaching in a technology enabled world – opportunities and challenges” was conducted by EnhanceEdu, IIIT- Hyderabad together with ITM Group of institutions, on 15th March, 2013, at Conference Hall, Golden Jubilee Block, Nampally Exhibition Grounds, Hyderabad. Over 100 enthusiastic faculty members from around 15 colleges and diverse subject areas attended the workshop, driving it to a success.

Prof. Sandhya Kode, Director, EnhanceEdu, facilitated the workshop and highly engaged the participants. She highlighted numerous education technologies and resources such as OER, NPTEL, Virtual Labs etc. She spoke about the need for education to adapt to changing technologies and how technology, pedagogy and acceptability need to come together to make teaching and learning better. This was followed by a hands-on group activity designed to help teachers on how to make a switch to a new paradigm. To meet this end, the participants discussed on the qualities of a good teacher. Each of the participants identified a quality that they aspired for in their teaching profession. After a discussion about “how to make a change happen when change is hard”, the participants charted an action plan on how to inculcate this quality. For instance, some participants identified that they wanted to improve self confidence. To achieve this, they planned to give presentations once or twice every week. Some others participants wanted to develop patience. They had planned to write a message for themselves on the board on patience in every class. At the end of the workshop, the participants gleefully exhibited their activity charts showing their plan for change.

The workshop was well received by all participants. The participants were thrilled with the holistic and innovative nature of the workshop. They were not only introduced to various technologies and resources in education but they had also designed steps to bring about a sustainable change within themselves. They were eager and determined to implement their learnings from the workshop in their classrooms.

An interactive question and answer session was conducted by Dr. Susanta Misra, Founder & CEO, NICEFIT Career Consulting. The session highlighted how the role of a teacher was changing from an information provider to a facilitator of learning.

The workshop was hosted by Osmania Graduates Association (OGA). Sri S. Padma Rao, President of OGA, welcomed the audience and Sri. Harinath Reddy, Vice President of OGA, briefed the main objectives in organizing such a workshop as part of OGA's initiative for community development. Dr. Aditya Margam, Associate director of ITM Group of Institutions and convener of the workshop, introduced the theme of the workshop and its relevance for teachers today. Dr. D Gangadhar Rao, member of the management committee of OGA, gave an overview on how teachers should make the most of the opportunity of attending the workshop and take away the best from the workshop.

What the participants had to say about the workshop:

"It is innovative. It has created a thirst and eagerness to improve my teaching using new technologies."
Ms. Premela Ranjith, Lecturer, Kamala Nehru Polytechnic for Women

"Presentations were very enthusiastic and energetic. Workshop challenged me to focus on one area and excel in it."
Ms. B PremaPushpanjali, Lecture in Biochemistry , SN Vanitha Mahavidyalaya

13. CIT Orientation session over A-VIEW (Virtual Class Room)

Ms. Sandhya Kode talked to students over A-View as part of the CIT orientation on 13 March, 2013. More than 3000 students attended from 17 colleges. Many students registered on the spot and many more are yet to register. Hurry up! The offer is only valid upto 21st March, 2013.

14. The British Council together with EnhanceEdu conducted a two day workshop on "Instructional Design for e-Content" at VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, India

The British Council together with EnhanceEdu conducted a two day workshop on “Instructional Design for e-Content” at VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, India on the 21st and 22nd Feb, 2013. The conference was well received by the participants, and this was evident from the levels of enthusiasm among the participants. The participants being directly related to the field of Instructional design found the workshop insightful and informative.

The workshop was facilitated by Professor Gwen van der Velden, director of Learning and Teaching Enhancement and Kyriaki Anagnostopoulou, Head of e-learning University of Bath, Dr Stylianos Hatzipanagos, Kings College London, Prof. N J Rao, IIIT Bangalore and Prof Sandhya Kode and Prof. Kesav Nori, both from EnhanceEdu IIIT-Hyderabad. It was attended by over 50 engineering faculty, instructional designers and learning technologists from across the country. The workshop was also streamed over A-VIEW, an audio visual virtual classroom environment developed under the aegis of MHRD, to over 15 colleges across the country.

The workshop was followed by an open seminar session on “e-Learning Environments: New opportunities and challenges for students and universities” on the 23rd of Feb, 2013 at Vignana Jyothi Institute of Management. Speakers during the session discussed topics such asMassive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, institutional approaches to Open Educational Resources and the potential of social media to transform learning and teaching in higher education. This session was graced by Dr. Dinesh K Paliwal, member secretary National Board of Accreditation (NBA) and Dr. Rameswara Rao, Vice Chancellor, JNTU Hyderabad. Over 300 participants attended this session.

Watch videos here.
Vigana Jyothi Institute of Management (VJIM) had organized the Sixth National Conference during 13 - 15th December 2012. The theme of the conference was “Leveraging India’s Competitiveness in a Globalised Economy: Issues and Perspectives’. This conference aimed to provide a platform to discuss the contribution of India’s Competitiveness towards the economic growth of India.

Ms. Sandhya Kode, Director, EnhanceEdu was invited as a Speaker at the Conference. Her talk was scheduled for 15th December 2012, during the morning session (9 AM to 11 AM). Find the details of the event here.

2. Talk by Ms. Sandhya Kode, as part of the workshop organized by British Council

Ms. Sandhya Kode, Director, EnhanceEdu delivered a talk on Instructional Design using LBD, Course Creation and Use in Teacher an Student Training. The talk was scheduled on the 30th of November 2012.

The talk was delivered as part of “Workshop on Instructional Design for e-content Development” held at IGNOU, New Delhi on 29th and 30th November 2012. British Council in partnership with Indira Gandhi National Open University jointly organized the workshop. Details of the event here.

Digital Systems and Services for open access Education and Learning by Prof. Demetrios G Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece and
Prof. Panagiotis Zervas, Centre for Research and Technology, Hellas, Greece

4.Principals' Meet on 22 March, 2012

EnhanceEdu conducted a Principals' meeting on 22nd March 2012 at IIIT Hyderabad (IIIT-H).
36 college representatives (principals, HODs, faculty members and placement officers) attended this meeting.
Ms. Sandhya Kode (Chief Mentor and Director, EnhanceEdu, IIIT-H) welcomed the college representatives. She
shared from her experience the lack of hands-on knowledge in the graduating students. She stressed on the "Learning by Doing" (LBD) methodology implemented in Certificate in Information Technology (CIT) program,
which gives students not only better understanding of subjects to excel in academics but also be more employable.
Prof. Kesav Nori, Chief Information Officer (Retd.), TCS and now Distinguished faculty at IIIT-H,
pointed at the gap between the industry and the academia and how this is affecting the students. He also
stressed on the fact that India should move from being a services providing nation to a product developing nation.
Mr. Surya Kiran (Program Manager, EnhanceEdu, IIIT-H), gave a brief overview of the CIT
program and its different phases namely the content development, teacher training and student training.
Dr. Viswanath, Research Professor of Eminence, spoke about the management model of computing and how this is
being employed to train students and faculty members break down a larger problem into smaller/manageable units.
Ms. Sunita Reddy (Sr. Program Manager EnhanceEdu, IIIT-H) talked about the challenges faced in the mplementation
of the STEP(Student Enhancement Program) and discussed possible solutions.
Dr. Krishna Chalam, Principal, Sree Chaitanya College of Engineering, Karimnagar shared his
experience of implementing CIT for all his 2nd year students. He specifically shared the importance of the
program and how it has enhanced the skills of both his faculty members and students. He also shared that
he has observed a significant increase in the academic scores of the students after undergoing this program.
The meeting was followed by lunch at EnhanceEdu. The participants discussed their questions over lunch and
interested colleges stayed back to sign the Expression of Interest and Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).

5. T4E 2012 Conference (Dates: July 18-20, 2012)

The IEEE International Conference on Technology for Education, T4E 2012 is coming to Hyderabad, India between July 18-20, 2012. It will provide a forum to bring together educators and technology experts interested in promoting learning and teaching through the use of technology. Proposals are invited from students, teachers and researchers in academia and industry to present results of their research and development efforts in education through the use of technology and discuss future directions. This is the fourth in a series of annual events with the first three having been held in Indian cities Bengaluru, Mumbai, and Chennai respectively. Visit http://t4e.iiit.ac.in/ for more details.

6. Summer Teacher Training Program (TTP) nominations open

EnhanceEdu invites you to nominate faculty members for the 7th TTP. As you are aware, the TTP is part of the Certificate in Information Technology (CIT) program started with an objective to enhance the quality of IT education in engineering colleges. Faculty members on successfully completing TTP are expected to offer the program to students at their respective colleges. We have so far conducted 6 TTP batches and successfully trained 335 faculty members from 54 partner engineering colleges. These trained faculty members have so far trained over 3000 students at the engineering colleges.This summer, we plan to conduct TTP for 100 faculty members from 20+ partner colleges. During the TTP, faculty members will be working “hands on” and enhance their skills in the CIT content

The entire TTP usually takes 10 to 12 weeks to complete. However, faculty members can attend 1 or 2 phases
(i.e. 4 to 8 weeks) if constrained for time and complete the remaining phases in the winter TTP (Nov-Dec 2012).
The summer TTP will be offered in three slots. Faculty members are free to choose one of these slots:

April 23, 2012 - May 16, 2012

May 14, 2012 - June 06, 2012

May 14, 2012 - July 07, 2012

The faculty members who successfully complete the Teacher Training Program (TTP) will be issued a certificate of completion (L-board). A mentoring certificate will be issued to the faculty members on successful implementation of the CIT program for one batch of students. We will support the boarding and lodging of the faculty members during their stay at IIIT-H for the entire period of TTP. We also encourage you to identify at least 5 faculty members for the upcoming TTP and invite you to attend the principals’ meeting on March 22, 2012 to know more about the program and understand how your college can benefit. Please feel free to contact us at enhanceedu@iiit.ac.in or call us at +91 40 6653 1357. Summer Teacher Training Program (TTP) nominations open!!!

7. R & D Showcase 2012 (Dates: 3rd Mar & 4th Mar, 2012)

R&D Showcase was held at IIIT Hyderabad on Saturday, 3rd March and Sunday, 4th March. Dr. Vijay
Kumar Saraswat (Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister) inaugurated the showcase and spoke on
“Cyber Warfare and National Security”. Over 250 exhibits and demos from around 20 research centers
were presented in this showcase. Around 2000 participants attended the showcase at IIIT Hyderabad.
Some interesting exhibits included

A speech based access for agricultural commodities price in Telugu. In this exhibit, the user
dials a toll free number and asks for the price of an agricultural product in Telugu. The system
then responds by giving the “zilla” where the product is available and the price at different mandis.

Robo Kabbadi exhibit belonging to the area of Multi Agent System showed 3-4 autonomous
robots playing kabbadi among themselves.

40 Virtual experiments in English and Telugu to teach Physics to school children

An instrument to measure haemoglobin in blood without using blood directly

An autonomous wheel chair for the handicapped

Areal Vehicle which maps the whole room for surveillance with the help of a camera fitted into it

EnhanceEdu showcased posters on the Certificate in Information Technology(CIT) program, Student
Enhancement Program (STEP), Butterfly Model and workshops. Faculty members from various
colleges were keen to participate in the upcoming Teacher Training Program (TTP 7) in April - June.
Students were enthused about STEP. Various principals from other colleges such as Hitech, Gurunanak,
Maheshwari etc., wanted to partner with EnhanceEdu to implement STEP at their respective colleges.
Professionals from the industry also visited the stall to collaborate with EnhanceEdu for their training programs. A workshop on “Learning Styles” was conducted at EnhanceEdu lab for 20 participants to
find out if one was a visual, auditory, tactile or kinesthetic learner and it was well received.

EnhanceEdu hosted a workshop on “Guidelines to write a research paper” through A-view that was conducted on 18-19 February, 2012. Experienced professors from IIT-B, Prof. D B Phatak, Prof.Sahana Murthy, Prof. Mukta Atrey and Prof. Kannan Moudgalya conducted sessions on different aspects of a research paper writing. A well written research paper should include

Key focus

Clearly stated contribution

Logical flow

Setup of problem

Explanation of solution

Defence of solution

Self-explanatory graphics for results

Illustrative examples

Good writing style, language and formatting

No plagiarism

The importance of articulation of thoughts, discipline, hard work and rigor were emphasized on.It was suggested to take feedback and make iterative improvements for clear, correct and precise writing.The sessions also covered how to plan and organize a research paper from an idea. A template was used to help organize the paper. It was a hands-on and practical workshop. Examples of papers were used to explain the different aspects of good paper writing.The A-view technology made it possible to participate in a virtual classroom withmore than 3000 participants from various places to take the benefit of lectures from experts. It was also possible to have live and interactive Question and Answer session.

9. Felicity 2012 (Dates: February 17-19, 2012)

IIIT-H to celebrate Felicity, an Annual cultural and technical fest at IIIT Hyderabad. It is the biggest fest in South India, comprising the participation of more than 10 thousand students from all over India.Website: http://felicity.iiit.ac.in/12/

Art of Teaching - An excellent opportunity for your faculty to enhance their teaching skills
Dates: December 9-10 or December 16-17, 2011
This workshop is being offered to only CIT Phase I trained faculty members. The workshop is completely activity based and is designed to be a fun-filled learning experience. We will issue a certificate to all successful participants at the end
of the workshop.
EnhanceEdu will provide free accommodation (on request) and lunch for the faculty members during this workshop. In case the faculty member wishes to commute to IIIT-H for the workshop we will provide him / her suitable travelling allowance (TA). Moreover, we have designed some competitions wherein the faculty members stand a chance to win upto Rs. 3000 in cash awards.

Ms. Shuchita Rao is an Instructional Design Speciaist who completed her MCA from Central University, Hyderabad and post-masters in Instructional Design from Bridgewater University in Boston, USA. She has over 20 years of experience as a software consultant, having worked for Tata Consultancy Services and Pricewaterhouse Coopers and as an instructional technology consultant with public schools and private colleges in USA. Shuchita has conducted several workshops on effective course design, assessment methods and learning management systems and is presently working with EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.

We believe this workshop will add value to your faculty and to your college as a result. Since we have limited slots, we recommend you contact us with your preferred dates by December 6, 2011 to avoid any disappointment.

2. Visit to Prakasam Engineering College

Visit to Prakasam Engineering College
Date: 28 Nov, 2011
Prakasam Engineering College (PEC) has resumed STEP during their semester-end holidays. A team of two (Charan Varma and Sai Kumar) from EnhanceEdu have visited PEC on 28 Nov, 2011. PEC has been implementing STEP 7 hours a day during this whole week. The EnhanceEdu team stayed at PEC for 2 days and conducted an orientation session on Java for the students, motivated the students to perform better and supported the mentoring process by explaining to the mentors the importance of evaluations and timely feedback (through the use of rubrics).
During the meeting with the mentors and Mr. K. Ramaiah, Correspondent, the EnhanceEdu team understood that the college is conducting special classes for first year students on Engineering
Physics, Engineering Mathematics and designing flow charts to make them strong in the fundamentals. The team suggested the use of Raptor in this flow charts course to enable students understand better.

Date: 22 Nov, 2011
Enhanceedu conducted a workshop on Moodle at PVP Siddhartha Institute of Technology on 22 Nov, 2011. The workshop focused mainly on how to design a course and how to make it readily available for students using Moodle in a manner to facilitate a better understanding of subject matter.

The workshop was conducted in hands-on approach. Faculty from CSE department attended the workshop. EnhanceEdu mentors helped the participants on creating courses in Moodle, adding different types of resources, conducting assessments and quizzes.

5. Conducted POGIL Workshop at EnhanceEdu on 8th August, 2011

Clif Kussmaul, associate Professor,Department of Computer Science, Muhlenberg, conducted a workshop on POGIL (Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning) on August 8th,2011 at EnhanceEdu. POGIL is a student- centered instructional approach that simultaneously develops discipline, content mastery and key process skills such as critical thinking, effective communication and teamwork. In this student centered strategy, the EnhanceEdu team worked in small groups with individual roles. Students were then given fully designed materials that guided them to construct new learning. Cliff pointed out that POGIL was based on research that indicated that teaching by telling does not work for most students, and that students are likely to be more successful when they are part of an interactive community. The project is funded by National Science Foundation. In addition to helping students to learn by doing, POGIL also would help to develop process skills such as critical thinking, problem solving and communication through collaboration and reflection, making students more competitive in a global market. Ms Adilakshmi, Head of Computer Science Department from Vasavi Engineering College attended the workshop. She was keen on implementing POGIL at her institution with smaller numbers in a class. Cliff has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis , USA; a MA in Electro-acoustic Music from Dartmouth College, USA; and a BS in Engineering and BA in Music from Swarthmore College, USA. His professional interests include active learning, free and open source software, software engineering, and applications of computing in other disciplines.

To learn more about the POGIL Project or to find an event in your area, please visit www.pogil.org

6. Conducted advance courses workshop series at EnhanceEdu

We have conducted workshops on advance courses like

DIGITAL SYSTEM DESIGN USING VERILOG

VLSI AND DESIGN FOR TESTABILITY

PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION SECURITY

DATA MINING AND DATA WAREHOUSING

Faculty members from different streams and from various engineering colleges participated in the workshops. These workshops was conducted in a period of one month from June 6, 2011 to July 8, 2011 one after the other.

We specially invite you, your HODs, CIT trained faculty and newly nominated faculty to participate in the Digital Learning Workshop and Preview Program on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at IIIT-Hyderabad. The agenda is enclosed. In the Digital Learning workshop, we have as Chief Guest, Prof. D. N. Reddy, Vice Chancellor, JNTUH, and as Guest of Honor, Prof. Kannan Moudgalya from IIT Bombay, asserting the important of digital learning and much more. We introduce our new models and content, our new offerings including advanced courses, spoken tutorials and virtual labs, and share best practices and successes. The program includes a preview of our upcoming summer training programs for CIT and advanced courses, and prepares new faculty nominees for the summer training programs in learning by doing mode. The digital course content is new and revised with industry and participating college feedback. We also have a college specific session, where we will review your college specific needs, collaboration interests and action, faculty nominations and paperwork renewals.

8. Conducted Principals' meeting on 29th March, 2011

We invite Principals, HODs, senior faculty members, placement officers to participate in our upcoming Principals and faculty meeting on 29 March, 2011. We will be reviewing exciting new offerings and other opportunities to collaborate with EnhanceEdu. We have 10 new colleges joining as participating colleges this year. We are inviting the faculty nominated for summer Teacher Training Program to attend the principals and faculty meeting to orient the faculty and prepare them for the Learning by doing method of teacher training program and introduce new models of CIT implementation. Content of the advanced courses and virtual labs information will also be shared at this meeting. We also invite CIT trained faculty along with new nominees for the summer teacher training program to attend this meeting and take advantage of this opportunity. Teacher Training Program (TTP-5) at IIIT-H is scheduled from mid-May 2011 to mid-July 2011. In the meeting we will have college-specific discussions for the participating college management for reviewing present status of CIT implementation and how we can take this forward. We will also discuss new strategies for CIT Implementation like Introduction of CIT course in appropriate years to maximize benefits to the students. We look forward to your active participation in the meeting and to empower yourself with the CIT advantage!

9. Conducted Principals' meeting on 16th March, 2011

EnhanceEdu organized its 5th Principals meeting on 16th March 2011 at IIIT-Hyderabad. The meeting started at 9'o clock with registrations and interaction with the participants. Welcome note was given by Ms. Sandhya Kode (Director, EnhanceEdu, IIIT-H). She spoke about the employability skills and gap between colleges and industry, and also ways to bridge this gap. She stressed on need of robust attitude among students to implement their learning’s to real life problems. She also told about learning by doing methodology implemented in Certificate in Information Technology (CIT) program, which gives students not only better understanding of subjects to excel in academics but also the confidence to face industry requirements. Dr. D. N Reddy (VC, JNTU-H) graced the principals meeting as the chief guest. He talked on Digital learning technologies and bridging the gap. He talked about the growing number of students and the growing disinterest in profession of teaching due to which it's tough to find good lecturers.He conveyed his idea about futuristic goals of education, where the universities will go virtual. Dr. Rajeev Sangal (Director, IIIT-H) spoke about Human values and its role in ones life. He explained in detail about basic needs why human values should be a part of curriculum. In his words, a teacher's responsibility is not only to endow the student with technical knowledge but also with human values which has a greater significance in every aspect of life and which also to a certain extent influences the professional life of a student.

Prof. Venkatesh choppella, Associate professor at IIIT - Hyderabad, talked about FOSS (Free and Open Source Software), FOSS community, and also gave a critical comparison between Proprietary software and FOSS. Mr. Aditya Margam, our industry support, in his talk, focused upon communication skills and how to get ones point across. He highlighted that it is not just a quality of speaking polished and fluent English that can be termed as good communication skills but the polite yet firm way of expressing oneself. He backed up his statement by few experiences he had during his long career in industry as a recruiter. Dr. Uma Garimella, consultant with EnhanceEdu and founder of Inspiring Teachers spoke about the Art of mentoring which is one of the golden pillars on which CIT program stands. Dr. Vishwanath, also a faculty of IIIT-H brought up an interesting point that we train students for industry, but how do they cope up in unfortunate situations like recession etc. He expressed his concern for also preparing students to face such situations in their career.

10. Jeevan Vidya Shivir was offered in teacher training program

The objective of the workshop is to draw attention to the self in the human being, what is within us innate and intact, need for human relationships, inherent desire to seek knowledge, and the joy that we naturally derive from these. Thus, it brings about a dialogue between what we are and what we seek to be. It does not posit happiness in an after-world, but here and now. It is rational, secular, universal and encompassing all dimensions

Scipy.in was the Indian edition of the popular Scipy conference held annually in the USA for the past decade. It is a confluence of developers, user and want to be users of the python programming language for scientific computing, from across academia, industry, research labs, hobbyists, etc. FOSSEE initiated an Indian edition of the popular SciPy conference in order to encourage the use of Python for Scientific Computing in India. EnhanceEdu helped organize the conference successfully across three different venues. EnhanceEdu was also instrumental in spreading awareness for the conference among partner colleges and in getting huge student participation. It was conducted in Hyderabad from December 13 - 18, 2010. About 250 participants from various disciplines attended this conference. At this conference, novel application and breakthroughs made in the pursuit of science using python are present. This conference also provides a unique opportunity to interact with the “Who’s who” of the python for scientific computing fraternity and learn, understand, and get involved in scientific computing.

3. Conducted Teacher Training Program for 5 weeks started on 1st November, 2010

We conducted and completed our IV batch of Teacher Training Program(TTP) which started from 1st November, 2010 to 5th December, 2010. 23 faculty nominees represented from seven engineering colleges participated in this training program. They were trained at IIIT-H campus for 5 weeks on following courses

Computational Thinking

Java

Apart from IT skills, training was given on many other things which are listed below:

Art of mentoring, active learning

Educational taxonomies and learning styles

Rubric design

Soft skills training

Talks by people from industry and IIIT-H

4. Conducted Open day and Graduation day on 19 th August, 2010

EnhanceEdu conducted Open Day & Graduation Event 2010 on Thursday August 19, 2010 at IIIT-Hyderabad We had tremendous response with over 50 participants including Principals, HODs & Mentors from 28 colleges actively participating in sharing their experiences in the implementation of the CIT program and the benefits of the CIT program. From the feedback given by the participants, we are encouraged and want to thank you and all others, who have helped us reach the high standards we set for the CIT Implementation program. We congratulate our third batch trainees who have completed their training program and the colleges who started implementation of CIT program. The following points were discussed during the event Review initial successes and feedback from colleges that have started CIT implementation. Facilitate the smooth implementation of the CIT program in the future. Explore and discuss new offerings from EnhanceEdu and collaboration with IIIT-H. Issue certificates to the trainees who have completed training in IIIT Hyderabad We have introduced “ Start Green and Stay Green ” program which is about beginning the CIT implementation in a right way and continuing to keep it that way throughout the program.

We conducted two day workshop on Open source technology toolkit at RVR&JC College of Engineering, Guntur on 3rd and 4th August, 2010. The aim of our workshop was to encourage and empower the engineering faculty members to use Open Source Technologies. This workshop helps faculty to have hand -on experience in using these tools. About forty five faculty members of the college participated in the workshop. All the participants were from different streams of engineering. Due to the impact of the workshop, the management decided to make usage of Moodle mandatory for faculty.

6. Conducted charity event on 27th June, 2010

We are very happy to announce that EnhanceEdu conducted a charity event on 27th June, 2010. We distribute food to the people who are hungry.
Everyone of our team actively participated in the event and distributing food packets in different regions of hyderabad.

We are happy to announce that we conducted workshop on MediaWiki at Hyderabad Central University in afternoon session (2:00 Pm to 5:00 Pm) from 26th May to 5th June, 2010. This workshop helps faculty and students to have hands on experience in MediaWiki tool. About 40 faculty members participated in the workshop from different colleges and from different states. They are from different backgrounds (mostly of them from arts and science), most of them did not have hands on computer before came to the workshop. Before the workshop, the participants did not have an idea of what is Wiki, but after the workshop they actually build their own wiki pages. Shared their ideas what they can do with this tool.

We are happy to announce that we conducted two day workshop on MediaWiki which is a learning management system at Maulana Azad National Urdu University on 12th and 13th May, 2010. This workshop helps faculty and students to have hands on experience in MediaWiki tool. About 40 faculty members participated in the workshop from different colleges and from different states. They are from different backgrounds (mostly of them from arts and science), most of them did not have hands on computer before came to the workshop. Before the workshop, the participants did not have an idea of what is Wiki, but after the workshop they actually build their own wiki pages. Shared their ideas what they can do with this tool. The participants successfully completed, the assigned tasks in the workshop. They have built their college website using MediaWiki

We happy to inform that EnhanceEdu conducted Principles of Programming workshop 2010 at IIIT-Hyderabad campus from 3rd May, 2010 to 14 th May, 2010 . This was an exciting opportunity to teach programming as a science and apply it within the current technology environment of Web 2.0. The Principles of Programming short course being offered this summer was an opportunity for teachers to learn how to teach the concepts of programming using modern educational and software practices, apply to build web 2.0 applications and connect them to principles of software architectures and design.

The objective of the course was to bring college teachers teaching introductory programming and computer science up to date with a modern way of teaching and learning programming which emphasizes a conscious use of the principles of programming to build Web 2.0 applications. College teachers found this course useful because

It introduces principles of programming

Introduces a modern applications environment based on the web 2.0, like Gmail, Facebook, Flickr, etc.

Reviewing initial successes and feedback from colleges that have started CIT implementation.

Facilitating the smooth implementation of the CIT program in the future.

Exploring and discussing new offerings from EnhanceEdu and collaboration with IIIT-H.

Issue certificates to the trainees who have trained in IIIT - Hyderabad

11. Wiki Day workshop conducted for DVR engineering college on 11th April, 2010

We are happy to announce that we conducted a one day workshop on MediaWiki which is a learning management system. This workshop helps faculty and students to have hands on experience in MediaWiki tool.

EnhanceEdu successfully conducted this workshop on 11 th April, 2010 for DVR engineering college at IIIT - Hyderabad. About 55 members attended this workshop, of which 4 were faculty and the rest were students.

The objective and expectation of the workshop was set i.e. the participants were expected to build a college website using MediaWiki wherein, each department would have a separate section.

The participants successfully completed, the assigned tasks in the workshop. They have built their college website using MediaWiki

12. Conducted 7 workshops in the month of February - March, 2010

We are happy to announce that we conducted seven workshops on different Free and Open Source Softwares in various engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh. These workshops helps faculty and students to have hands on experience on using these tool.

Team from EnhanceEdu, IIIT - Hyderabad visited the following engineering college and conducted the workshop in their college.

WikiDay at Vignan Institute of Technology Deshmuki on 31st March

Technology toolkit at MLR Institute of Technology on 26th & 27th March

WikiDay at Nalla Malla Reddy Engineering College on 19th March

Wiki-Moodle Day at VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Technology on 18thMarch

WikiDay at Sree Kavatha Engineering College on 14th March

Technology toolkit at Sri Vasavi Engineering College on 25th & 26th February

EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad & IIT-Bombay conducted a two-day workshop on "Scientific Computing with Python"(SciPy). We conducted this workshop for teachers, researchers, scientists, engineers and scholars who wish to learn how to use the Python computer programming language and related tools for processing scientific data and graphically displaying them. Attendees learn the Python programming language, its features and software libraries to code and generate plots and perform scientific operations on large data sets.

14. Jeevan Vidya Shivir was offered in teacher training program

The objective of the workshop is to draw attention to the self in the human being, what is within us innate and intact, need for human relationships, inherent desire to seek knowledge, and the joy that we naturally derive from these. Thus, it brings about a dialogue between what we are and what we seek to be. It does not posit happiness in an after-world, but here and now. It is rational, secular, universal and encompassing all dimensions.

1. Certificate in IT program started in 18 participating engineering colleges

Padmasri Dr.B. V. Raju Institute of Technology, Medak

On 9th September 2010, Started implementation of CIT program for 30 students.

TRR College of Engineering

On 23rd August 2010, Started implementation of CIT program for 76 students.

Marconi Institute of Technology

On 20th August 2010, Started implementation of CIT program for 33 students.

PVP Siddhartha Institute of Technology - Vijayawada

On 30th July 2010, Started implementation of CIT program for 36 students.

VR Siddhartha Engineering College - Vijayawada

On 25th July 2010, Started implementation of CIT program for 50 students.

Padmasri Dr.B.V.Raju Institute of Computer Education - Bhimavaram

On 23rd July 2010, Started implementation of CIT program for 30 students.

Vignan Institute of Technology & Sciences - Deshmukhi

On 10th April 2010, VITS - Deshmukhi started implementation of CIT program for 28 students.

Annamacharya Institute of Technology and Science - Rajampet

On 8th February 2010, AITS - Rajampet started implementation of CIT program for 48 students.

Prakasam Engineering College

On 07th January 2010, Prakasam college started implementation of CIT program for 62 students.

MLR Institute of Technology

On 20th October 09, MLRIT started implementation of CIT program for 72 students.

Bharat Institute of Engineering & Technology

On 19th October 09, Bharat college started implementation of CIT program for 39 students.

Arjun Engineering College

On 10th October 09, Arjun college started implementation of CIT program for 53 students

DVR College of Engineering and Technology

On 6th October 09, DVR college started implementation of CIT program for 55 students.

CVR College of Engineering

On 14th September 09,CVR college started implementation of CIT program for 39 students.

Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology

On 12th September 09, CBIT started implementation of CIT program for 50 students.

Vishnu Institute of Technology

On 07th September 09, VIT college started implementation of CIT program for 30 students.

Shri Vishnu Engineering College for Women

On 01st September 09, Sri Vishnu College of Engineering for Women started implementation of CIT program for 90 students.

Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology

On 3rd August 09, GRIET started implementation of CIT program for 135 students.

2. Jeevan Vidya Shivir was offered in teacher training program

The objective of the workshop is to draw attention to the self in the human being, what is within us innate and intact, need for human relationships, inherent desire to seek knowledge, and the joy that we naturally derive from these. Thus, it brings about a dialogue between what we are and what we seek to be. It does not posit happiness in an after-world, but here and now. It is rational, secular, universal and encompassing all dimensions.

EnhanceEdu conducted a two day workshop on Free & Open source tools. The aim of our workshop was to encourage and empower the engineering faculty members in using Open Source Technologies. This was a wonderful opportunity to know what are existing open source tools and benefits of using them. This workshop helps faculty to have hands on experience on using open source technologies for the development of projects.

The topics covered in this workshop includes:

Free & Open Source

What is Free & Open Source

Why Free & Open Source

Linux

Users in Linux

Network Settings

Synaptic Manager

How to install applications using Synaptic Manager

Emacs

Open Office

Apache

Key components of Web Environment

Controllers

What is Apache

How to Install Apache

Different configurations in Apache

MediaWiki

What is MediaWiki

Installation of Mediawiki

User Creation and Restrictions

Content Creation and Restrictions

Uploading the Content

Formatting Techniques

Moodle

What is Learning Management System

Installation of Moodle

Creation of Users

Different Types of Users

Explore different options available

Different Views

Sub Versioning Tool

What is Subversioning Tool

Advantages of Subversioning Tool

Installation of Subversion

Creation of Repositories

User Priviliges

Restricting the users to specific Directories

Redmine Tool

What is project management tool

What are the different project management tools

What is Redmine

Advantages of Redmine

Different Configuration settings in Redmine

4. Conducted assessment training on 21 st November, 2009

In our endeavor to enhance the skills of faculty members of engineering colleges, we conducted a one day workshop on assessment training at IIIT-H. In this workshop, training is on designing scoring tools for assessments and tasks. This workshop was conducted as part of the process for completion of the formal training process.

In this workshop, the speaker give an exposure of different educational taxonomies like Bloom’s and Fink’s and its importance in the current education system. Knowing the taxonomies is helpful in developing a course and in assessing students’ knowledge.

Bloom's Taxonomy refers to a classification of the different objectives that educators set for students (learning objectives). Bloom's Taxonomy divides educational objectives into three domains: Affective, Psychomotor, and Cognitive. Within the taxonomy learning at the higher levels is dependent on having attained prerequisite knowledge and skills at lower levels.

In this talk the speaker mainly focuses on cognitive domain, skills in the cognitive domain revolve around knowledge, comprehension, and critical thinking of a particular topic. Traditional education tends to emphasize the skills in this domain, particularly the lower-order objectives. There are six levels in the taxonomy, moving through the lowest order processes to the highest as show in the figure.

In Bloom’s taxonomy, Bloom did not discuss about human dimension, learning how to learn and caring areas which Fink’s mentioned. Fink also mentions learning process is not hierarchal, but it is continuous process.

Learning Styles:

A Learning style is the way in which each learner begins to concentrate on, process and retain new and difficult information. In this workshop the speaker discussed about different approaches of learning such as:

Visual

Auditory

Read / Write

Kinesthetic

Rubrics:

In the assessment training, we discussed about rubrics and advantages of rubrics over a single numerical score. He also mentioned that assessments should be conducted in such a way that it should be aligned to learning objectives. Good grades are more likely to translate into Good learning.

Mr. Vijay Rangineni (CEO of Mahindra Satyam BPO) was invited to have a talk with our mentors on the assessment training workshop conducted on 31st October 2009. He had discussed the demographics of India, where 35.3% of the people are aged between 0 and 14 and 56.9% are aged between 15 and 59, it is upon this group that the development of the country depends. We have 500+ universities and 25000+ colleges but still a gap persists between industry needs and students' abilities.

Mr.Rangineni pointed out some of the shortcomings of our education system where -

There is a greater focus on theory/fundamentals rather than on application

There is a lack of constant updation of syllabus

There is a non-existent / inadequate interaction with corporate

There is a low weightage given to corporate internships and industry stints

The need for well-rounded skill sets to be developed by students to bridge the gap between industry needs and their level of knowledge was discussed.

Increased impetus on corporate internship

Writing technical papers

Business writings

Soft skills training(negotiation skills, interpersonal skills, communication skills..etc) which are very important to sustain in corporate

Cross culture training

Student should focus on applying theories/fundamentals in building applications rather than just knowing it

6. Talk by Mr. Aditya Margam on 27th October, 2009

Aditya Margam has been an active professional of the IT industry since 1984. Since 2005 he is actively involved with initiatives that help engineering students meet the IT industry's requirements. His most recent assignment was as Vice President (Education & Employment Initiatives) at SQL Star International limited, Hyderabad, India. Here he was responsible for architecting and establishing their Education for Employment (E for E) initiative. He was invited to address faculty members of engineering who are training at EnhanceEdu.

During his talk, he stated the following points

He stated few pros and cons of our education system

Mr.Aditya Margam talked about the strengths and areas of improvement of students to bridge the gap between industry requirements and students knowledge levels.

He also stated the importance of soft skills.

7. Conducted poster design competition for the trainees

batch, 09. The trainees came-up with various designes for the posters for the Certificate in Information Technology. The main theme of posters is learning by doing and advantages of CIT. Cash prizes were given to 5 best posters.Below are some of the poster created by trainees.

8. EnhanceEdu successfully organized charity event

Team EnhanceEdu successfully completed its first charity event on 11th August, 2009. The team has donated food to Chavadi Child Welfare Society located at Gachibowli, Hyderabad.

9. Conducted creative movements

We conducted creative movement classes for the faculty members of engineering colleges who attended teacher training program in IIIT-H. Twenty six faculty members attended this sessions conducted by Mrs. Sonal Nimbkar, Masters in Dance. This helped in exploring the various movements of the body that improves the confidence levels.

10. Multicore Technologies workshop at IIIT-H

A three day workshop on Multicore Technologies was conducted by IBM and IIIT-H to enhance the understanding of parallel programming that is necessitated due to the recent advances in multicore architectures. Faculty members from various engineering who came for teacher training program in IIIT-H had a chance to the workshop.

11.Conducted Open Day on 24th July, 2009

The principals, HODs and management from all the participating colleges for summer batch 2009 were invited to meeting in IIIT-Hyderabad. The trainees shared what they have learnt during the 2 month teacher training program.

The expectations about implementation of the training program in the colleges have been set both by the IIIT-H and the colleges. This became a common platform for the faculty trainees and the management to come up with their implementation plan.The number of participants from various engineering colleges is more than 100.